...for crappy music. I love Xmas music. I don't care how cheesy it is. This is my 2004 Xmas mix CD cover and playlist. A couple of the songs aren't exactly Xmas songs, but I'm trying to reinvent them as such:

1. Here We Come A-Caroling by The Ray Conniff Singers
2. Spotlight on Xmas by Rufus Wainwright
3. Holy + Ivy by Iberis
4. Iíve Got Your Love To Keep Me Warm by Dean Martin
5. A Xmas Song by The Ravonettes
6. Step Into Xmas by Elton John
7. Little Jack Frost, Get Lost by Bing Crosby
8. Winter Wonderland by Peggy Lee
9. Xmas Medly by The Ray Conniff Singers
10. Youíre So Cool by Hans Zimmer
11. Xmas Wrapping by The Waitresses
12. Jingle Bells by Lisa Loeb
13. Iíd Like You For Xmas by Julie London
14. Noel Nouvelet by Iberis
15. Coventry Carol by Suzanne Vega
16. Have Yourself a Merry Little Xmas by Sinatra + Crosby
17. Joy To The World by The Ray Conniff Singers
18. Just Like Xmas by Low
19. The Way Old Friends Do by ABBA
20. Buy You A Ring by Huffamoose
21. Soulful Xmas by James Brown

Yes, how come no Amy Grant or Garth Brooks songs? And where are the festive Barenaked Ladies songs? Everyone knows how much you heart them. I just made you read the word "underwear." Ha ha, classic stuff.

kids, Ray Conniff is absolutely aces. Serious good stuff. I'm sure everyone has a "But Dan, where is...." question, and not to be left out of the masses, my query is, but Dan, where is Burt Kaempfert? My parents must have been of a decidedly cheesier variety, and so I'll go out on a limb and ask what's Christmas without the "Christmas Wonderland" album by Burt Kaempfert? All that trumpet-y goodness! It's Christmas music your grandparents could stomach.